So it sold for £280,000

guitars4you

https://reverb.com/news/harrisons-cavern-club-maton-sells-for-280000-pounds-at-auction

Sold at Gardiner + Houlgate auction for £280,000 - yes I have the right amount of zeros - I forgot to add fees - So it is now £347,200

rossyamaha

I know. Some slimy bastard sniped me at the last second. I bid 279,977 thinking no one will beat that. 

guitars4you

rossyamaha said:

I know. Some slimy bastard sniped me at the last second. I bid 279,977 thinking no one will beat that. 

Sure Deb or KW would have helped you out with a few quid

 I think bidding started of at something like 60K - I thought about bidding at that stage just to say I had - Knowing, at least hoping, that someone will come in above me - then bail out of the bidding - Believe the buyer was in the room - So not an on-line purchase

Guitar_Slinger

rossyamaha said:

I know. Some slimy bastard sniped me at the last second. I bid 279,977 thinking no one will beat that. 

Years ago there was an auction of somebody's estate which included lots of old bicycles, including custom made ones by Raleigh and others used in British races with the numbers still attached. I registered to bid on one, because it was the same one my older cousin had when he was a schoolboy champion.

Bidding on that bike (and others) went above my £200 limit, so at the time I was gutted to miss out on a genuine racing bike from the 1970s.

A few months later, when the truth came out about Jimmy Saville, I was glad not to have bought one of his bikes.

DrBob

Guitar_Slinger said:

rossyamaha said:

I know. Some slimy bastard sniped me at the last second. I bid 279,977 thinking no one will beat that. 

Years ago there was an auction of somebody's estate which included lots of old bicycles, including custom made ones by Raleigh and others used in British races with the numbers still attached. I registered to bid on one, because it was the same one my older cousin had when he was a schoolboy champion.

Bidding on that bike (and others) went above my £200 limit, so at the time I was gutted to miss out on a genuine racing bike from the 1970s.

A few months later, when the truth came out about Jimmy Saville, I was glad not to have bought one of his bikes.

I know a guy that’s got a couple of paintings by Rolf Harris which he’s not really sure what to do with .

sgosden

DrBob said:

Guitar_Slinger said:

rossyamaha said:

I know. Some slimy bastard sniped me at the last second. I bid 279,977 thinking no one will beat that. 

Years ago there was an auction of somebody's estate which included lots of old bicycles, including custom made ones by Raleigh and others used in British races with the numbers still attached. I registered to bid on one, because it was the same one my older cousin had when he was a schoolboy champion.

Bidding on that bike (and others) went above my £200 limit, so at the time I was gutted to miss out on a genuine racing bike from the 1970s.

A few months later, when the truth came out about Jimmy Saville, I was glad not to have bought one of his bikes.

I know a guy that’s got a couple of paintings by Rolf Harris which he’s not really sure what to didgeridoo with .

fixed for you.

DrBob

Lol duly awarded 

blobb

According to the catalogue blurb:

The guitar was exhibited at The Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool from 2014-2015 and then offered at Juliens Auctions, New York on 16th May 2015 (ex lot 424 ‘Music Icons’) with a listed hammer price of $485,000.

So.....quick XE conversion, £347,200 = $452,356

Someone picked up a bargain?

EricTheWeary

blobb said:

According to the catalogue blurb:

The guitar was exhibited at The Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool from 2014-2015 and then offered at Juliens Auctions, New York on 16th May 2015 (ex lot 424 ‘Music Icons’) with a listed hammer price of $485,000.

So.....quick XE conversion, £347,200 = $452,356

Someone picked up a bargain?

It was in The Beatles Story Museum when I was there in April this year.
As I understand it the guitar never belonged to George, it was a loaner from the shop repairing his Gretsch and was used for The Beatles last ever Cavern performance  and all their gigs May to August 1963. 

blobb

it also had a life with Tony Hicks from The Hollies. According to my mum, a much better band. 

mikeyrob73

DrBob said:

Guitar_Slinger said:

rossyamaha said:

I know. Some slimy bastard sniped me at the last second. I bid 279,977 thinking no one will beat that. 

Years ago there was an auction of somebody's estate which included lots of old bicycles, including custom made ones by Raleigh and others used in British races with the numbers still attached. I registered to bid on one, because it was the same one my older cousin had when he was a schoolboy champion.

Bidding on that bike (and others) went above my £200 limit, so at the time I was gutted to miss out on a genuine racing bike from the 1970s.

A few months later, when the truth came out about Jimmy Saville, I was glad not to have bought one of his bikes.

I know a guy that’s got a couple of paintings by Rolf Harris which he’s not really sure what to do with .

Yup we have one of them in the loft. Cost the Mrs a fair bit, just waiting for the old perv to die and hoping it may go back up in price past the price of firewood it’s now worth. 

57Deluxe

rossyamaha said:

I know. Some slimy bastard sniped me at the last second. I bid 279,977 thinking no one will beat that. 

you mean you didn't employ a realtime Auction Sniffer???

EricTheWeary

The Maton/ my weird selfie

https://i.imgur.com/mD1akDM.jpg

ICBM

Sounds overpriced to me, and it didn't even reach the estimate.

Why would a guitar that George didn't own, only played very briefly and was not used on any Beatles recordings or film of their gigs be worth over a quarter of a million pounds, let alone more than that?

Celebrity association gone bonkers.

And I'm quite a Beatles/George fan...